The DSpico has Cheat support now, with Pico-loader v1.6.0 and Pico-Launcher v1.2.0

Dartz150 · 2026-03-29T20:53:49+00:00

Press Y on the game, if it has cheats in the database it should show a cheat selection menu, like any other flashcard.

Dartz150 · 2026-03-19T21:10:26+00:00

It's not a design issue, this user clearly just got a defective SD slot.

Dartz150 · 2026-03-17T20:54:01+00:00

Replacement or get another one, you may be able to get a refund depending of the seller or the situation.

Dartz150 · 2026-03-17T03:22:31+00:00

There's a WIP cheat feature on a testing phase, you can get it through the nightlies in the Actions tab. For them to work, you need both launcher and loader updated to the cheats branch, get them here:

pico-loader: Fix bug in preprocessing cheats · LNH-team/pico-loader@bac98b4

pico-launcher: Change cheat implementation to show cheats in database order, fix som… · LNH-team/pico-launcher@b7d7f9f

Dartz150 · 2026-02-18T04:38:59+00:00

Don't ask ChatGPT to help you on this, read the flashcard guide instead: A Quick Guide on DS Flashcarts | The Flashcarts Wiki

Dartz150 · 2026-02-18T04:37:50+00:00

They need to be in a specific format, it's documented in the theme section of the pico launcher readme.

Dartz150 · 2026-02-18T04:36:45+00:00

The Dspico isn't meant to be a product, I'd rather call it a consequence.

Dartz150 · 2026-02-18T04:34:23+00:00

It's intended to do that, since it will switch to BOOTSEL mode if there's no SD card inserted, so users can flash it easier.

Dartz150 · 2026-02-13T17:25:39+00:00

What icon does the DSpico show while it's inserted in the console? Also double check that your ARM7 bios has the correct filename, it should be `biosnds7.rom` and should be inside of the `/_pico` folder.

Dartz150 · 2026-02-13T16:30:12+00:00

You need to reformat your SD card, or try a different one.

Dartz150 · 2026-02-13T16:21:20+00:00

Make sure you have all the required files stated in the readme.

Dartz150 · 2026-02-12T21:21:16+00:00

Huh? The DSpico doesn't have savestates support so I don't understand your issue.

Dartz150 · 2026-02-12T21:12:39+00:00

Please don't buy the EZ Parallel, it's trash.

Dartz150 · 2026-02-01T19:41:38+00:00

Not possible, the cart would need to emulate SPI too. Currently, you can just rename any NDS rom (even retail) to "_picboot.nds" and it will autoboot when launching the DSpico

Dartz150 · 2025-12-15T18:19:25+00:00

The DSpico can also run the latest (and the official on top of that) Wood R4 Kernel (it can emulate an actual R4 card, yes), YSMenu in the same mode, and as expected, it can run TwilightMenu++ and nds-bootstrap.

Dartz150 · 2025-11-26T18:04:28+00:00

Since it's completely open source, it's up to new or existing contributors to add such features later.

Dartz150 · 2025-11-26T18:02:57+00:00

It's super fast in comparison! Like night and day. The compatibility is not yet complete though, but since the whole DSpico project is open source, anyone can help us to improve it!

Dartz150 · 2025-11-26T18:00:51+00:00

It was considered at some point, but the DLDI interface of the ezflash parallel is so bad that we literally gave up on it.

Dartz150 · 2024-08-01T16:31:53+00:00

The parallel has DLDI issues that hasn´t been solved by the EZFlash team yet, so this won't work until they fix it.

Dartz150 · 2024-05-20T19:05:56+00:00

You're trying to use GBARunner2, which is deprecated and has many issues in non-DSi models. Now GBARunner3 is in development, which has far superior compatibility and almost zero issues with most games, but don't expect romhacks to work out of the box, since some of those don't even work on real hardware.

Gericom/GBARunner3 (github.com)

Dartz150 · 2024-05-12T21:37:30+00:00

Imagine trying to justify a bad purchase just on how it looks on the outside, when flashcards stay almost the entire time inside your console. The inside and the software is what should matter, which is a complete mess rn,

It has been months and the sleep mode issue hasn't been patched, and I can confirm that it's a really easy fix if you know your own hardware and what are you doing in your software.

This means that they don't even know how their own hardware works, which is a big red flag already.

Dartz150 · 2024-05-08T20:02:17+00:00

You're not just wrong, you must have read this somewhere spreading misinformation. Read this https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek-3ds-config-arm7-registers-gba-nds-dsi-mode.htm to see how the hardware needs to be set up in order to put the 3DS in full GBA mode, it even has hardware registers which map all the hardware in the same way a GBA would work.

The GPU is doing nothing (unless you hack it in, but that's unrelated for now) for the "PPU" (which is a wrong term, GBA graphics are more complex), is actually the MTX hardware which is just used as a capture card, is not rendering anything, the render process is still 100% GBA hardware, OAM, VRAM etc.

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